by Trish Springsteen | Sep 23, 2008 | Business, Communication, Personal Development
Experience … now there’s a word! By its definition it’s the natural teacher of us all. Experience means ‘personal knowledge, familiarity with and the actuality of learning from what we have done and practised’.We all know that without the benefit of experience we...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 16, 2008 | Communication, Personal Development
“Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.””I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 15, 2008 | Communication, Personal Development
Or even Melancholic or Choleric? Yes even the Greeks were at it in 190AD – analysing personality types that is. Sanguine et al are personality types described by Galen the Greek physician (c130-201AD) which can be referred to as the ‘Four Temperaments’ or the ‘Four...
by Trish Springsteen | Sep 2, 2008 | Personal Development
How do you define yourself? What values are important to you?Here is an exercise that we sometimes use in our self-development courses. Take a blank sheet of paper and make a list of 10 words that describe the most important aspects of who you are. Some items may be...
by Trish Springsteen | Aug 27, 2008 | Personal Development, Public Speaking
Often when we engage in public speaking we are engaging in a selling exercise. It could be that we want to sell our product, our ideas, our opinions or even ourselves in interviews – but whatever it is, we must engage our audience on two levels.First we need to give...
by Trish Springsteen | Aug 14, 2008 | Business, Leadership, Personal Development
The old saying is that nothing is as certain as death and taxes … but I am adding one more certainty – we are all going to make mistakes.Being in business means that we have to be decisive; we must make decisions and having to make decisions inevitably leads to...
